Chinese Idioms 7: How often do you change your mind?

"Change one's mind constantly"

   This four-character idiom's structure is an apposition: the first part (sanxin) is parallel to the second (eryi). If your heart is three and

Chinese Idioms special 3: The year of the horse brings a lot of good luck!

This is the third special post dedicated to the soon beginning year of the horse. If you lost the previews ones, you can find them here and here.

mǎnián xíng dàyùn   jíqìngyǒuyú

Today's idiom can be translated as: "May the year of the

Is this bamboo lucky?

Yesterday I went to the supermarket. I saw this very Chinese-appearing thing and decided to buy it:

My new lucky bamboo

What do you think? does it seem to be Chinese enough? 

   

    Well, not only it is not Chinese, but it is not even

Chinese Idioms special 2: may the year of the horse bring riches!

  

 As promised in the previews post (see here), a new idiom regarding the year of the horse.
    Also this one is

Felice anno nuovo del Cavallo!

(per la versione in inglese clicca qui)

   Come tutti sappiamo, il 2014 è cominciato; ma secondo il calendario tradizionale cinese, che è un calendario lunare, il nuovo anno comincerà tra circa un mese: il 31 gennaio 2014.

"Calendario lunare": il primo carattere (yue) significa "luna", il secondo (li) significa "calendario".

Il nuovo anno sarà l'anno del Cavallo: "ma"

Chinese Idioms Special: Happy new year of the horse

(for the italian version of this post see here)

   As we all know, the year 2014 has begun. But according to the Chinese traditional lunar calendar the new year is going to begin within almost a month (on the 31st of January 2014).

   The new Chinese Year is going

Chinese idioms 6: golden chickens

Ever heard of a chicken standing on one leg? Chinese language does in fact have an idiomatic saying that describes this situation:

金鸡独立 jīn jī dú lì [listen]: standing on one leg like a golden rooster.

    This expression deriving from